Public power is hilarious

Remember that edgy ad for Proposition H we told you about – with actors portraying executives with Pacific Gas and Electric Company uttering all those bleeped out f-bombs?

Comedy Central

We think we know how he’d vote on Proposition H

So far, it’s been viewed thousands of times on the Internet, but tonight it makes its television debut. A shortened, 30-second version is scheduled to air throughout the Bay Area at 11:40 p.m. on Comedy Central – during the Colbert Report.

Stephen Colbert’s conservative on-air persona surely wouldn’t think highly of public power, clean energy or San Francisco, let alone all three wrapped into one. But Julian Davis, campaign manager for the Yes on H campaign, thinks Colbert’s audience will appreciate the ad.

“I think they’re going to laugh,” he said.

By the way, Davis said it only cost $1,500 dollars to get the ad on the air in the local market, including the Colbert showing and two others in the middle of the night. That means the No on H campaign, which has raised $10 million from PG&E, could afford to air its own 30-second ad three times on Comedy Central 6,666 times. But something tells us they won’t be making that ad-buy any time soon.